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Reaching out to Eastern and Central African partners at ASARECA conference

Reaching out to Eastern and Central African partners at ASARECA conference

By Graham Thiele, RTB Director Attending the General Assembly and Scientific Conference of the Association for strengthening Agricultural Research in ...
Une nouvelle alliance vise à exploiter le potentiel du manioc pour lutter contre la faim et la pauvreté

Une nouvelle alliance vise à exploiter le potentiel du manioc pour lutter contre la faim et la pauvreté

Le Programme de recherche du CGIAR sur les racines, tubercules et bananes (RTB) et le Partenariat mondial pour le manioc ...
Bioinformatics key to using genetic and metabolite data for breeding

Bioinformatics key to using genetic and metabolite data for breeding

As scientists collaborate on a global effort to map RTB genes and metabolites and link that information to traits, they ...
Roots, Tubers and Bananas postharvest processing project gets started in Asia

Roots, Tubers and Bananas postharvest processing project gets started in Asia

Site selection is underway as the Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Postharvest Processing project on adding value under the RTB ...
New banana disease to Africa found in Mozambique

New banana disease to Africa found in Mozambique

A destructive strain of a banana wilt disease has been discovered on Cavendish bananas in Mozambique. The disease, widely known ...
New Alliance to Tap Cassava’s Potential for Reducing Hunger and Poverty

New Alliance to Tap Cassava’s Potential for Reducing Hunger and Poverty

For Immediate Release (12 December 2013) The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the Global Cassava ...
Harnessing the power of the “omics” to improve RTB varieties

Harnessing the power of the “omics” to improve RTB varieties

RTB researchers are collaborating with a growing network of scientists at institutions around the world in an ambitious effort to ...
RTB and Humidtropics create space for collaboration

RTB and Humidtropics create space for collaboration

RTB crops play an important role in the farm systems of smallholders in humid tropics agroecosystems, so it was just ...
Yams: Raising the profile of the “King of Crops”

Yams: Raising the profile of the “King of Crops”

Yam is a very important and popular RTB crop in West Africa, with 99% of the world production coming from ...
Accelerating learning and tackling bottlenecks through a conceptual framework for roots, tubers and bananas seed systems

Accelerating learning and tackling bottlenecks through a conceptual framework for roots, tubers and bananas seed systems

One of RTB’s seven research themes is concerned with improving farmer access to low-cost, high-quality planting materials. A team of ...
Rethinking capacity development to enhance the impact of research

Rethinking capacity development to enhance the impact of research

By Javier Ekboir (Bioversity/ILAC), Adiel Mbabu (CIP), Per Rudebjer (Bioversity), Simone Staiger-Rivas (CIAT)  - How can capacity development contribute to the process ...
Sweetpotato research advances celebrated in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana

Sweetpotato research advances celebrated in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana

Sweetpotato and yam bean researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP), and partners in Sub-Saharan Africa spent the first week ...